Despite an overcast sky and cold weather, a few onlookers began to gather peacefully at the end of the morning near the small Saint-Joseph church, in front of which security barriers have been installed. Numerous police forces were visible in the town and the port. Around a hundred of them, including a squadron of mobile gendarmes, were mobilized to avoid any excess, according to a source close to the matter.
Some 200 people will be able to attend the funeral which is to be celebrated by Father Dominique Le Quernec, rector of the parish of Carnac, according to a religious source.
Another ceremony, “religious and of homage”, will take place at the Notre Dame du Val-de-Grâce church in Paris, attached to the diocese to the French Armies. This mass, decided by Marine Le Pen, will be open to the public.
The two events should remain conducive to contemplation, estimated Louis Aliot, vice-president of the RN, while on Tuesday evening, entire crowds of French people gathered in certain cities in France, including Paris, Lyon or Rennes, to celebrate, with songs, smoke bombs and fireworks, the death of the man who had founded a party with former SS.
On Friday, the prefect of Morbihan Pascal Bolot issued an order prohibiting demonstrations in the town, given that “the political personality of the deceased” was “likely to attract, on the sidelines of the religious ceremony and the burial, a large crowd composed of both sympathizers but also possibly opponents.
The prefecture justifies its order by “the risks of disturbances and counter-demonstrations likely to provoke clashes between antagonistic movements with diametrically opposed ideologies and regularly inciting violence”.
-The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau judged the scenes of jubilation on Tuesday “shameful”, while Mathilde Panot, boss of the LFI deputies, said she was not “shocked”.
Obsessed with immigration, Muslims and Jews, Jean-Marie Le Pen was condemned for several of his statements on the Second World War, and for homophobic insults.
Elected deputy in 1956 under the Fourth Republic, he brought the French far right out of its marginality during a political career which marked the Fifth Republic.
This veteran of Indochina then returned to Algeria, where he will be accused of torture.
On April 21, 2002, he shocked the political class and a large part of French public opinion by reaching the second round of the presidential election behind the outgoing Jacques Chirac.
